It was winter when I first met Jean-Paul Vaugoin, and Vienna was glistening in its pearly gray beauty, a light that had the same silver shimmer as the pieces lining his shop, Jarosinski & Vaugoin.
In the hip neighborhood of Neubau, surrounded by modern boutiques, galleries, and wine bars, the shop, with its early-20th-century storefront and curling typography, stands as a testament to the city’s enduring love affair with hand-rendered beauty. It opened in 1847 and has been on the same street—Zieglergasse—since 1903, when the Vaugoin family merged its business with that of the Jarosinski family. Today, the shop is as recognizable a landmark in the seventh district as the Staatsoper is in the first.
